Looking for Gaming Laptop

[Chilly]

Okay Guys,

I am looking to buy a laptop for school and gaming use, basicly I want to get a laptop that has a screen size of 15" widescreen, highest resolution possible, it also has to have a good GPU (Graphics Card) in it, I'm looking for a 7600/x1600 bare minimum, I will be using Windows XP Pro, and playing mainly these games:

BattleField 2
AoE 2
BattleField 2142(When it comes out)
Half-Life 2/Eps1/Eps2/etc Source Games and Mods
Need For Speed Most Wanted
UT2004
UT2007 (When it comes out)
AoE 3
SimCity 4

In that order (most played to least played)

I don't have much of a budget, but I wouldn't like to spend more than 3000$ before tax (CND - Canadian).

Currently looking at the Toshiba Tecra A7 http://www.toshiba.ca/web/product.grp?lg=en&section=1&group=1&product=5733&part=5250#spectop which I can get for about $2,199 from work

I'm also looking at a 2.16GHz Apple MacBook Pro http://www.apple.com/ca/macbookpro/ Which I can get for around $2,599 with my Collage Edu Discount

Thats all I've looked at so far, so I'm looking for your guys Guidance as I'm not much of a notbook guy, and Toshiba and Apple were the only guys I know from experance of building quality notebooks oh and if you haven't noticed asthetics matter.

Thanks alot in advance,

Chilly

 

[Goran]

You've just enough money with your budget to get a pretty pimped out Sager gaming laptop... I only spend $2000 on mine.

 

[Biest]

how about alienware or dell (technically the same thing)? alienware has back to school program running

 

[g-c0de]

I was looking at a hypersonic laptop a few days ago. Here's the link: http://www.hypersonic-pc.com/2001/systems-mobile.asp

It's the Aviator MV6.

I thought about buying the hypersonic laptop because of how portable and powerful it is, as well as the quality of the parts used for the build.

I decided to go a different route and went with dell which included a deal from dell and a military discount. Got the e1705/i9400 (even though it is a 17", the specs just won me over), $1,996.85 from $3,491.00. I pretty much went all out with the specs

 

[Bona Fide]

I would check out the refurbished 15" MBP, which carries a 1-year warranty.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APP...1vJfoT/1.0.0.19.1.0.8.7.3.5.1.1.7.1.5.1.3.5.0

Or, better yet, you could do what I'm doing, and get an Inspiron. Go to http://www.deals2buy.com/delldeals and use the $750 off $2000 coupon, and build an e1705 with 2GB RAM and a 7900GS for under $1500.